{"id":930688,"date":"2026-10-12T21:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930688\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T21:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:20:17","slug":"in-search-of-vancouvers-best-seafood-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930688\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search Of: Vancouver\u2019s Best Seafood Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seafood is serious business in this city. No wonder, then, that Vancouver\u2019s best high-end spots love to literally put it on a pedestal. Here are four towers of power that celebrate the bounty of the ocean.<\/p>\n

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\n1. Uchu<\/p>\n

The Torre del Mar ($89 per person) stands out as top tier (ha\u2014get it?) at chef Ricardo Valverde\u2019s Peruvian cevicheria and raw bar. Unlike the other seafood experiences in this round-up, it comes in two different servings. First, a two-tier chilled tower that boasts leche de tigre shooters, plump oysters with a creamy espuma sprinkled with tajin, scallops on the shell, refreshing steelhead trout tiraditos, mussels escabeche and chilled prawns.<\/p>\n

After you\u2019ve devoured your way through the tower, some nikkei bites (Peruvian nigiri) and creamy potato causas arrive on a ceramic plate specially made for Uchu by designer Meemware.<\/p>\n

158 E Pender St., uchurestaurant.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n2. Blue Water Cafe<\/p>\n

At Yaletown\u2019s Blue Water Cafe, they take the words \u201cseafood\u201d and \u201ctower\u201d incredibly seriously. The three-tier Blue Water Cafe tower ($205) comes with a selection of sushi as well as the restaurant\u2019s signature raw bites. Think: tidily rolled spicy tuna and Dungeness crab rolls, tuna goma-ae and an entire chilled one-pound lobster spilling over the top shelf.<\/p>\n

Divided over three rippled glass bowls are oysters, prawns, clams, mussels and a wasabi jellyfish salad that stings the tastebuds in a delightful way, plus salmon tartare, seared black pepper-crusted red tuna and a scallop ceviche. This beautiful behemoth is best paired with an entire bottle of wine, which they\u2019ll keep chilled for you tableside.<\/p>\n

1095 Hamilton St., bluewatercafe.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n3. Boulevard<\/p>\n

This stunning room is the home of Vanmag\u2019s 2026 Chef of the Year, Roger Ma<\/a>. And with his exquisite attention to detail, it makes sense that the seafood-heavy spot is also our gold winner in fine dining<\/a>\u2014which is all to say that their winner of a seafood tower ($90 for two people, $175 for four) takes the cake.<\/p>\n

Atop crushed ice in two gargantuan glass vessels, find smoked steelhead, a carapace full of Dungeness crab Louie, snow crab legs, prawns and freshly shucked oysters, along with luscious slices of albacore tuna tataki and mussels drenched in an escabeche. Crowning the top tier of the tower is a frozen martini for two ($25) shaken inside a Grey Goose bottle and set inside the ice to keep chilled.<\/p>\n

845 Burrard St., boulevardvancouver.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n4. Riley\u2019s<\/p>\n

Theatrics and location are on Riley\u2019s side\u2014but even if the upscale seaside eatery didn\u2019t have either, The King seafood tower ($269) would still knock it out of the park. A whole chilled Atlantic lobster comes expertly sawn in half on the top tier along with juicy king crab legs, tuna tataki dry-rubbed with a smoky chili spice and a Hokkaido scallop crudo.<\/p>\n

Plumes of dry ice smoke billow down to the lower level, where four plump jumbo prawns, a selection of raw oysters with a mignonette and a dill cocktail sauce are on offer, all expertly executed by chef Jon Chuy.<\/p>\n

200 Burrard St., rileysrestaurant.ca\/vancouver<\/a><\/p>\n

READ MORE: The Best Seafood Restaurants in Vancouver, According to Our 2026 Restaurant Awards<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Kristi<\/p>\n

Kristi Alexandra is the managing editor, food and culture, at Canada Wide Media. She loves food, travel, film and wine (but most of all, writing about them for Vancouver Magazine, Western Living and BCBusiness). Send any food and culture-related pitches to her at [email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seafood is serious business in this city. No wonder, then, that Vancouver\u2019s best high-end spots love to literally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-930688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}